Landscape design & build for Dallas

Being a massive metropolitan region, Dallas does not have a singular landscape style. You’ll find traditional yards, with hedges, lawns, and tidy rows of flowering shrubs. You’ll also find modern designs that echo the vibrant metropolitan feel of the city – striking paver paths, stylized plantings of ornamental grasses, a foregrounding of simple but elegant materials like concrete, wood, and steel.

Regardless of style, designs tend to embrace open, flowing layouts that prioritize outdoor living by offering a series of spaces, each offering something unique – a fire pit, a kitchen, shade, sun, solitude, room for a crowd – to make sure you can do whatever you may wish to do in your outdoor space. Yards in Dallas are built to get people outside.

Landscape designs in Dallas commonly feature elements that support outdoor living. Hot tubs, fire pits, and landscape lighting are all common requests, helping Dallas residents get the most from cool evenings outdoors.

On the opposite end of the spectrum, swimming pools, shade trees, and pergolas are equally popular elements, each offering a relief from hot summer weather.

Outdoor kitchens, including a range of cooking amenities from grills to stoves to pizza ovens, are immensely popular, often integrating bar seating and, for sports fans, a view to an outdoor TV for watching the game al fresco.

Dallas landscape designs should prepare for a variety of weather conditions. Summers get hot, and winters have abrupt cold snaps. Pergolas and other overhead structures offer a place to hang heaters while also providing shade, providing climate mitigation year-round. Trees are a great shade source, too, and fire pits offer a fun way to stay warm late in the year.

Rain in Dallas can get intense, and it pays to have a yard ready for sudden downpours. Keeping plenty of permeable surfaces, especially areas with planting, will trap water on-site, reduce local flooding, and trap pollutants before they enter local waterways. It will also reduce erosion – and the mess it causes – within your yard.

Now! Any time of year is great to begin work on a landscape project.

When possible, we suggest utilizing the winter to work through the design phase – this sets you up to get on contractors’ books early in the build season, so you can have your design installed and ready to enjoy in time for summer.

If winter has passed, don’t worry, it’s never too late in the year to begin work on a landscape design project.